Posted on 07/15/2016 10:19:41 AM PDT by Hube
On CNN last evening, Georgia State professor Mia Bloom claimed that the terror group ISIS was not “coming after us,” and expressed concern that attacks like that in Nice, France yesterday increase the “degree of right-wing politics” and Islamophobia.
Bloom took issue with former CIA analyst Bruce Sexton whom she believed wasn’t aware that the majority of ISIS’s victims are Muslims.
“I do disagree with Mr. Sexton, because the fact is, and I’ll say this to you, Buck, directly, the vast majority of ISIS’ victims are Muslim. Not us. Not the West,” she said in a somewhat mocking tone.
As the Washington Free Beacon reports:
“I’m fully aware of that,” Sexton said. “No one disputes that.”An animated Bloom took exception to Sexton earlier saying “they’re coming after us,” saying, “They’re not coming after us more than they’re coming after each other.”
“I was referring to the Islamic State, which very clearly through its external operations arm … along with al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula which until recently was considered the most virulent and deadly of the jihadist terrorist organizations for this kind of external plotting, they’re continuing to do this,” he said. “Of course they’re killing Muslims.”
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I truly hope the Muslims give Mia Bloom the opportunity to experience Islamic love and tolerance first hand.
Ignorant liberal idiot.
“the majority of ISIS’s victims are Muslims.”
this is the biggest non sequitur I always hear in this argument.
Georgia State: the high school AFTER high school!
Buck Sexton?
Mia Bloom is Professor of Communication at Georgia University. She conducts ethnographic field research in Europe, the Middle East and South Asia and speaks eight languages. She has authored several books and articles on terrorism and violent extremism including Dying to Kill: The Allure of Suicide Terror (2005), Living Together After Ethnic Killing [with Roy Licklider] (2007) and Bombshell: Women and Terror (2011). She is a former term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and has held research or teaching appointments at Princeton, Cornell, Harvard and McGill Universities.
Under the auspices of the Minerva Research Initiative (MRI) of Department of Defense, Bloom is currently conducting research with John G. Horgan on how children become involved in terrorist organizations. Bloom and Horgan’s findings will be published in a book for Cornell University Press entitled Small Arms: Children and Terror (2016). Bloom has a PhD in political science from Columbia University, a Masters in Arab Studies from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and a Bachelors from McGill University in Russian, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies.
Another one for the camps
The ONLY reason they have not been more active is they are afraid of Trump benefiting if they attack here. After the election all bets are off IMO so be alert and armed.
So the families of the hundred-odd victims of the Nice tragedy are supposed to take some sort of solace in the fact that ISIS has victimized more Muslims than non-Muslims?
It’s not islamophobia; it’s islamonausea.
I heard this exchange. The lady reminded me of Eleanor Clift. And what a dumb argument. “They’re not coming after us! They’re coming after everybody!” All righty then.
Hey Mia, It ain’t a “phobia” if they really are out to get you.
Tie her to a goat, and throw her into a pit of horny muslims.
Filling in for Rush today.
Ironic you say that, because if she had her way, millions of folks like you and me would be sent to the gas chambers.
Prepare for civil war. It’s coming. We have passed the tipping point - the point where people like this can spout their hatred knowing they won’t be fired and shunned.
I don’t care how many degrees and appointments she has. This LIB degenerate is a complete naive idiot.
They just did in San bernardino. Of course, having a p-Resident who worshipped in a mosque also helps..
Not just Nice - what about the other attacks in France over the past few years (Charlie Hebdo office, Bataclan concert hall, Jewish deli, etc.)?
They are trying to distract and mislead us.
Just like any enemy would be expected to during the early stages of a war.
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